Soul Painter

All the staff of the Tianshi Different Administration Bureau were lost for a day.

This problem was discovered by everyone at the same time when I went to work the next day.

The reason is that most of the staff think that today is Friday, but in fact it is Saturday. Saturday is a rest day. Most of the staff of the Bureau of Abnormalities are on holiday. friend's curiosity.

"It's a holiday today, why are you still at work?"

It is easy to answer this question when it is asked of one or two people, but if the same situation occurs to hundreds of members of the Bureau of Different Administrations, it will be creepy.

The responsibility of the Bureau of Abnormalities is to deal with matters related to demons. Any abnormalities will be taken seriously, let alone such weird events involving the whole situation.

Therefore, the person in charge of the Different Administration Bureau urgently held a general meeting at 11:00 noon, and 431 members of the Different Administration Bureau, including some field members, were recalled and sat together in the auditorium to screen and judge the matter.

On the day they disappeared, the 13 field members did not show up at the headquarters of the Tianshi Alien Administration Bureau. Their timeline is normal, and the memory of Friday exists.

But all the staff who worked in the headquarters of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs yesterday lost their memories of Friday.

"That is to say, 418 people in the Tianshi Alien Administration Bureau were stolen for one day."

This deduced fact is unbelievable.

"People's time can be stolen, just change the memory. What about all the video surveillance and security records?" Someone asked a question.

The video surveillance is the same. In terms of date, Friday is completely blank, not only the video surveillance, but also all the security authority systems of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, such as access control, warehouse entry and exit records, and even the card swiping records of the staff cafeteria. is blank.

When the staff canteen was tracked down, it was found that there was a problem with the canteen’s inventory. The consumption of ingredients in the canteen’s inventory throughout the day on Friday was a normal amount of more than 400 people. There are indications that Friday did exist, but it disappeared from the minds of these 418 people and from all system records.

Those supporting materials included the amount of toilet paper consumed in the bathroom, the amount of electricity consumed in the office, etc. Later, more evidence was sent in turn, such as the confirmation of the commute and commute of the staff of the Bureau of Irregular Affairs in the traffic monitoring.

Everything proves that that day did exist, but it was erased from the memory of the 418 personnel of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs.

This day of disappearance caused great panic in the National Bureau of Abnormalities, and was even listed as an incident that could threaten national security, that is, a B-level pollution incident, and the most meticulous screening and investigation was carried out.

Because if the human memory and the data in the computer are tampered with at the same time, then the person or the devil who uses this power can do everything he wants to do.

The 418 personnel from the Tianshi Bureau of Abnormalities were brought together to a centralized isolation point for more detailed investigations, while the staff sent from the headquarters were at the original site of the Tianshi Bureau of Abnormalities, trying to restore what happened that day thing.

Something must be missing, but what exactly?

This investigation lasted for a week. Through detailed checking of the records of the Tianshi Different Administration Bureau and other different administration bureaus in the system, including any member's private or official external information records, as well as travel records, it was used to restore the ' Before the 'lost day', the Sky City Bureau owned everything in the state.

This 'status' includes human memory, inventory items, and files in the computer, and compares it with the actual status in the Bureau of Alien Administration after it was lost that day to confirm what was lost.

This work is very cumbersome, because what they are looking for may not be the real thing, or even a piece of memory. For example, the person in charge of the Tianshi Bureau of Abnormalities received an important piece of information that day, and that force came for this, and wanted to take this Finding a piece of lost information is equivalent to digging out the mysterious and disconnected island from the void sea of ​​human thinking.

Seven days later, they found some clues.

The discovery of these clues has reduced the pollution level of this matter from B level to C level, that is, from the level of destroying the country to the level of destroying the city, because more and more evidence proves that the disappearance of this thing is not From the disappearance of logic, but the loss of pure physical meaning.

"If it is a logical disappearance, then all related memories will be erased. This erasure is all-encompassing, but now it is seen that this incident is only erased from the memory of the relevant victims, as well as the information on various electronic devices. Presence on the medium...

In short, we lost a painting. Although the Tianshi Bureau of Abnormalities does not remember this painting, the various document exchanges between Tianshi and the headquarters, as well as the text exchanges between the person in charge and the management personnel, confirmed that it did exist. , exists in the warehouse with the highest level of secrecy in the Tianshi Different Administration Bureau, and its name is...

"Cherry Snow". "

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The painting "Cherry Snow" was created by STK's retired investigator 'painter' Gao Fan when he was in Dongying. He listed the missing 'painter' as a dangerous person in the Tianshi Bureau of Abnormalities, and asked STK's opinion on how to deal with it At that time, STk particularly emphasized that the painting "Sakura Snow" should be 'recycled', and suggested that the Bureau of Different Administration should hand it over to STK for processing.

The Bureau of the Alien Administration 'recovered' "Sakura Snow" from the studio of the 'painter' Gao Fan, but did not hand it over to STK for processing. This is normal. After all, STK is a worldwide investigator organization. The bureau is just a cooperative relationship.

In addition, after the "Doomsday Wedding", the ideological rift between the human country and the investigator organization became more and more obvious. The reason was that humans dropped nuclear bombs without notifying the investigator organization. However, some investigator organizations began to move closer to the devil. , the result is the current crisis of confidence.

...

Once "Sakura Snow" is lost.

Ana Armas was included in the list of suspects listed by the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, and a piece of news later made this suspicion even more convincing.

"Anna Armas left Tianmei seven days ago and her whereabouts are unknown."

The time is right.

If we use this as a clue to investigate again, the disappearance of the student she taught will be revealed again. If Anna stayed in Tianshi and did not leave, seven days ago, the day she disappeared, she was summoned to the Bureau of Abnormalities for questioning. The incident of inquiring will happen again, but this time, it will not be so easy to get out.

But Ana Armas had expected this result a long time ago, so she chose to leave this country after she got "Sakura Snow".

As for the destination, with "Sakura Snow", the Bureau of Foreign Affairs Bureau believed that Anna's goal would be Dongpu.

"It would be great if she went to Dongpu." Someone in the Bureau of Foreign Affairs commented, "Dongpu is a mysterious forbidden area, and those who enter it will never be able to get out. As long as she is still a human being and goes to Dongpu, then there is no need to worry about her taking With "Sakura Snow", a terrorist incident occurred."

The question is, if Anna knew that Dongpu was a mysterious forbidden area, would she still go to Dongpu?